New Tank Build - Mudskipper Setup (LOAD WARNING)

[KMKN]

nice set-up

 

[swede]

very nice! you must've loved macgyver too!

 

[fishy12]

I love ur idea for the box could u messeage me some directions or something on how u did it. I want to set up a mudskipper tank too. They look like there from a whole diffrent planet.

 

[indiana.dutton]

very nice!

 

[JK47]

I love ur idea for the box could u messeage me some directions or something on how u did it. I want to set up a mudskipper tank too. They look like there from a whole diffrent planet.

That's funny, you dug up old thread man! My first DIY post on MFK. It looks funky now that I read it again, don't know what I was thinkin

This tank got turned into a BN pleco breeder and the skips went into a divided acrylic tank with live mangroves. Don't bother with that box, it didn't work out well for what I intended but it was a fun project to learn about mudskippers though. I am lucky I never crashed the tank from any dead zones in that deep of sand bed considering how much they dug around.

 

[spaulding]

so where's the pics of the new tank?

 

[JK47]

so where's the pics of the new tank?

Sure I'll throw out a couple updates, but they are old though... Just for kicks, why not. I don't have the set up anymore but it was fun too. I went allot less sand this time around used floating turtle docks. The skips LOVE those docks. This way I could keep more water volume in the tank.

The stand, 2x4's built to hold two 55 gallon tanks:




The divider. As they got bigger they faught allot. Hooked it up to a reverse UGF powerhead setup to preasurize the divider. Water flows from the top and adds a little movement/aerates the water. The powerhead helped with mech on that side.





The sump, don't have better pictures sorry.


The overflow and return.


The tank:

 

[JK47]

And of course the dudes themselves...

 

[spaulding]

that looks a bit more sophisticated. i dig it

 

[JK47]

that looks a bit more sophisticated. i dig it

Yeah like I said the skips are long gone and the tank is empty now but I plan on plumbing it to the sump (around the corner from my 225) to grow out those mangroves and as many plants as I can stuff in there, not show tank style more like "show me the nitrates" style. Should be interesting. I want those mangroves big and bushy so this will be my chance to learn to prune them etc...